UTI and Bladder Cancer Diagnosis

I moved your post into its own apace, so that more people would see it.

I think that your comment is very important....When women have burning and urgency symptoms doctors always seem to think "UTI." Which is probably usually correct. I had "UTI's" repeatedly over a year-long period. My primary care doc would just prescribe antibiotics over the phone. I went in for a long-overdue pelvic and pap smear at a gynocolgy practice and happened to mention the "UTI's." The nurse practitioner told me that if you have more than three episodes in a year you go to a urologist immediately.

Guess what? No bacteria in the urine (my gp had never tested.) The rest is history....I am now six years cancer-free after a diagnosis of CIS!!

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